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It is clear, therefore, that the current rulers of Red China are merely
following in the footsteps of their so-called "eternal" leader Mao when
they stage public executions or murder people in labor camps.
Executions are still staged on a regular basis in China. It is not
known how many people are executed in the course of a year because
the Chinese government treats such information as a state secret.
However, the following figures will help to provide a general idea:
Amnesty International has reported there were 2,050 executions in
China during 1994. It recently released the figure of 1,313 reported ex-
ecutions in China during the first half of 1995. 31
The numbers have risen still further in the 2000s. In the first three
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